Hello Holla Forums
I have sent at least 5 copies of a sensitive document to an unknown printer that has connected to my PC.
This printer must belong to one of my neighbors in my apartment building. How do I find out whose it is?
Google has been useless. Please help.
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Give us some info we can actually use, fag
Somewhere along the line you must have connected to that printer yourself. You make it sound like this naughty printer came along and "connected to your PC". That doesn't happen.
Why did you allow your Operating System to do this? Nevermind. Here's what you do: print a message to them saying
"Hey, please destroy or return my documents to me, I never intended to use your printer lol --
Small reward available if you return them."
Print a message asking to deliver the documents to your apartment. Promise a finder's fee if they're really sensitive.
This is funny
Printed hentai on a neighbour's printer again?
I keep telling people not to print hentai with name and address
Print: "I'm watching you and I'm going to kill you" and then see which apartment the police go to.
How do people fuck up this hard?
oh and if you set it so that any random printer it detects is let through, chances are that people are going through your porn folder
Right
Now
Did you send a CP photo to the printer?
9/10 we don't get a reply because OP is throwing his PC off a bridge
print a bunch of books from project gutenberg, make the printer run out of paper and then your shit would either be at the bottom of the pile or in the middle if there was already shit in the tray
Keep an eye on your local news for more info about OP.
Print 50 more copies with fake info in place of the sensitive info. They'll never know which is the real copy
What more do you need? Seriously, tell me.
I've had this computer for 2 1/2 years and never owned a printer or tried to print anything until last night. So I don't know how it got connected to some random slutty printer, it just did okay?
I only own one printer. I have only ever owned this one printer. I never even look at the thing, so when I ctrl+P'd and there was only ONE printer available, of course I assumed it'd be MY printer...
Oh god how did I let this happen?
I'm here. I haven't given up yet.
I did actually think of doing something like this. But printers are loud as fuck and in the middle of the night, the person MIGHT not wake up to a couple pages printing, but printing for as long as half an hour straight trying to bury the original fuck ups, they'd probably wake up and unplug the thing.
This would have been the thing to do last night before I left for work. Really just some names and times needed to be changed on each sheet. Too late for this now though...
Basically I have accidentally spun the roulette wheel here, because this is a small town and a small apartment building, and as many as a quarter of the residents would be able to puzzle out who and what was being discussed in this document. And of them maybe half would do something with it instead of laughing and throwing it away.
My only hope at this point is that the document has perhaps ended up in the hands of someone who will laugh at it, then toss it because they're clueless about it. Instead of in the hands of someone who will understand it and therefore be able to use it.
My name and address are not on it. I won't risk telling some mystery resident that it belongs to me. I don't want to help them put the pieces together here.
I am counting on whoever finds it assuming that it is harmless, was intentionally sent out but ended up in the wrong hands, having a giggle, and then getting rid of it. If I send a message asking them to destroy it, well that kind of crumbles the already thin chance that they naturally think nothing of it.
I fucking wish. If I could make a deal with a genie that I could take back what I accidentally sent, but had to send hentai or gay porn, or something really fucked up like MLP shit in it's place, I fucking would.
That would have been an improvement. I can picture it:
It's not that exciting. Just potentially really troubling and embarrassing for me.
I promise if I get through this okay (maybe even if I don't) I will redact what needs to be redacted from the document and post it here for your luls.
Is it over wifi? Get a directional antenna and foxhunt it.
If you have Windows, try going into my My Network Places and Network Connections and delete anything that doesn't belong. If you have Linux (at least one with XFCE, most DEs should be similar), go into settings from the start menu, open up network and printing and do the same thing. Than up the security level of your Wi-Fi to WPA2, if possible, and make/change the password. Make the password something really long (20+ characters, e.g. Firetrucks8chanPikachuPhotoshop or &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&CAt). It's OK for long passwords to be simple (unlike short password that are typically advised not to have dictionary words or leetspeak) because no one knows what kind of password you have, so they must try everyone possible, which would take all eternity. Some people like 7 characters long with random numbers and letter; this is fine on a website but, not Wi-Fi or local passwords to due the increase in connection speed.
If it makes you feel any better, about a decade ago when I was moving the tailgate on the truck opened and I lost a firesafe that contained:
DD Form 214
Birth Certificate
Social Security Card
All tax documents
Everything else important paperwork that can be imagined
A thumb drive that probably contained porn
Documents regarding a criminal investigation of myself (from a long time ago)
Really I can't even remember what else
Never found it
And I always wondered about what happened to it. If somebody found it they could practically make a better claim to my identity than I could myself.
If a bad person found it they could open it with an angle grinder or spud bar no problem. They would have no reason to track me down unless they wanted to blackmail me or hold it hostage for money or whatever. If a good person found it they might not open it. Or maybe it cracked open on the highway and spilled everywhere and nobody picked up the pieces? Or maybe it went into the swamps off the freeway entrance? It's been so long now but I still wonder what happened to it. It was somewhat a bitch to get a new birth certificate
Your new goal is to find that fucking safe no matter the cost.
I already tried for a few years then gave up. Really don't know where to start. Contacted police (they gave no fucks) and tried craigslist, also walked around the highway where I assumed it probably fell off.
It's a pretty fucked up situation but I don't think there's much I can do. I also searched the web for fragments of personal information on the assumption that maybe somebody posted about it on craigslist or blogged about it at some point. No luck
I was so stressed out when I was moving that I didn't take care when packing the truck and the safe was at the back. And due to how full the truck bed was, the tailgate didn't close completely. I drove about 25 miles mostly on an interestate then when I got to the new place I noticed the tailgate was open and there was a perfect rectangular empty place where something was. After unpacking and sitting down for about 45 minutes it hit me that it was the one thing that I absolutely did not want to lose, the safe.
Never put your important shit near the back of pickup bed.
At that point it was dusk and really hard to see anything when I backtracked
well, WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU PRINT OUT, faggot? TELL US
the chances of your neighbours being able to use that info, or knowing how, are very little. unless it's something obvious, then you're fucked.
So what happened OP? Did you get arrested? Did you an hero?
It was just a blank piece of paper, he just wants it back. Can't go around wasting paper like that.
nvm fixed it
Can you pm me the solution?
Fucking hell stonetear, when are you going to learn?
kek, given how he fucked off, maybe he really did get arrested.
sent :)